Ives, can you tell one of your buddies at ESPN about Independent Component Analysis (ICA)? It's an AI algorithm that can separate individual audio sources from each other in a group recording. It's easy and can be done in near real-time to do things like separate guitar and drum beats from a song. It can remove the awful vuvuzelas/horns from the South African broadcasts. I'll do it for them if I have to.

The U.S. national team takes on African champions Egypt in its final group game (and likely final match) of the 2009 Confederations Cup (2:30 pm, ESPN2). The Americans are playing for pride after two losses, while Egypt is still trying to qualify for the semifinals, which it can do with a vic...